Geriatric Home Care Program
Compassionate, comprehensive care for patients who are homebound
The Home Care Program at Northwestern Medicine offers house calls to older adults from our board-certified geriatricians and nurse practitioners. Our office can answer your questions, process prescription refills, and help you and your family order home health and medical equipment.
Services we provide:
- Physician and advanced practice provider house calls
- Assisted-living house calls
- Coordination of care with hospitals, home health agencies and social services
- Blood testing
- Electrocardiograms (ECGs)
- Gastrostomy tube changes
- Vaccinations
- Pulse oximetry (to measure the oxygen level of your blood)
- Tracheostomy tube changes
- Wound care, including treatment for bed sores, and debridement (to clean the wound and remove damaged tissue)
Starting Home Care service
To be eligible for the Home Care program, you must have difficulty leaving your home. You also must live in our service area, which includes the following ZIP codes:
Meet Our Team
Our team of healthcare providers is committed to providing excellent geriatric care to help seniors stay in their homes while continuing to receive consistent medical support. We work closely with each patient’s medical team to support the patient, their family, caregivers and other providers, especially when complex or challenging health situations arise.
Meet Our Care Team
Downtown and in the Northern Suburbs
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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